Microsoft Buying Powerset For $100 Million?
Venturebear reports that Microsoft will buy schematic search engine Powerset for $100 million. This is still a rumour and no announcement has been made by both parties. Microsoft has struggled to topple Google’s 70% share in the search market with Microsoft Live.
Web start-up Powerset revealed a search engine that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords seen by some as a possible threat to Google. Currently the search engine only queries Wikipedia.
From Powerset, On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.
Source: Powerset
